Defending Florida's Ecosystems & Communities

Mod-Waters Project Increment 1.1-1.2

The Corps approves and implements Mod-Waters Increment 1.1-1.2, incorporating and implementing the July 2016 ERTP Reasonable and Prudent Alternative and effectively replacing ERTP as the operating plan for the southern portions of the C&SF Project. It is explicitly the first part of a 3-year plan to implement Mod-Waters Project operations. Increment 1.1-1.2 is to go into effect in March 2017; Increment 2 is slated to go into effect in March 2018; and the Combined Operations Plan (“Increment 3”) is set to go into effect in 2019.